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What a waste of time discussing a stupid letter when they could have discussed what they are going to do about their failing schools! It is always about teachers getting upset or
offended because someone is trying to let them know our district needs to do better.
Our schools are failing because these boards member do absolutely nothing! They are idiots!! These board meetings are nothing but drama they have no resolutions.

Commented: Sunday, January 28th, 2024 @ 4:45 pm By: Fed Up

Thank you Bob, I’m happy to take that compliment. If people think I’m nuts they don’t expect too much of me

Commented: Sunday, January 21st, 2024 @ 9:18 pm By: Will Simmons

Will, I was beginning to think you were semi-normal. But, nut job it is. See you in the funny papers!

Commented: Sunday, January 21st, 2024 @ 5:16 pm By: Big Bob

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Commented: Sunday, January 21st, 2024 @ 2:22 pm By: Will Simmons

Truth is hard to stop. the white fairy tail is no longer the an exclusive option

W- will never understand how masks could generate such a reaction considering the newness of the pandemic. Its just such a nothing burger. Sure nobody liked it but it just seemed like common sense. Like saying please , or thank you. Looking out for one another. Costs nothing.

Commented: Sunday, January 21st, 2024 @ 8:32 am By: big bob

WE need to keep the woke agenda out of our schools. The woke agenda is being pushed down on us from USDOE in Washington and NCDPI in Raleigh, and we have a local superintendant who goes right along with it. As long as the Cheeseman faction has a majority on the school board, this stuff is going to be hard to stop because they just sit there like bumps on a log and go along with whatever Cheeseman spoon feeds them.

Commented: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 2:47 pm By: Victoria

This tempest in a teacup reminds me of the line from Shakespeare, "The lady doth protest too much". Much of this is information they are required themselves to publicize but do not do so in a way that people will see it. Then they lose their cool when someone else does it. What more are they hiding? We need more transparency in government, not less.

Commented: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 11:00 am By: Rino Hunter

I have seen the fund raising letter that got the school board incumbents panties in a twist, and while it was not structured in the most effective manner, its content seems to be accurate. It is also interesting that the school board majority faction seems to admit that in its resolution by not disputing any of the facts presented.

Why are they so frantic about the public learning those things? Indeed, the letter's content about the county school's lousy scores on the state evaluations are something that the School Board itself is required by law to advertise itself. They do a deliberately poor job of meeting that statutory requirement. A link that goes to those scores is buried on the School Board's website, and even if you find it and follow it, there is still a lot more navigation of the state site necessary to find Beaufort County schools' scores. If the school board really had wanted to level with the public on the lousy scores our schools are getting, they would have taken some of the thousands of dollars they pay for puff piece ads in the Washington Daily News and buy a quarter page ad there revealing the scores. They don't want them revealed, so they don't do that and they get mighty upset when someone else reveals them.

Then there is the issue of local control of local schools which the majority faction on the school board clearly does not favor, based on the wording of their resolution. They clearly take the position that they should be subservient to the state DPI in Raleigh on curriculum, when the state law, on the contrary, gives the local school boards total control of what is in their curriculum. That was underlined when Rep. Kidwell introduced a bill to allow use of the Hillsdale College history curriculum, and the attorneys at the state legislature told him that was unnecessary because local school boards already had absolute control over curriculum and DPI had no authority to tell them what to do. Of course, the out of town attorney used by our school board is connected at the hip with DPI, so should he be expected to do anything other than sing DPI's tune?

With DPI being run by a Roy Cooper appointed majority on the state Board of Education, anything coming out of there is going to tilt to the left, often heavily. Therefore it is critically important to elect a school board that believes in local control of local schools. The current majority on the Beaufort County Board of Education clearly does NOT, and that is a huge issue IMHO.

Commented: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 9:22 am By: Steven P. Rader

Big Bob, if you are talking about an inner Republican Party in Beaufort County - its heart, its soul - there is none.

The "people" you speak of will ultimately decide what happens to their schools. That is how self-government works.

Commented: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 8:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

I did have concerns with the resolution because it was framed in politics. This is precisely why I was so adamant about not signing on to it. I'm trying very hard to stay off the political frontlines during this primary season and most certainly do not want to add it to county business in an official meeting.

Despite my efforts, I do recognize how determined certain ones are to drag me into it. Some of the untrue charges directed at me and others in the comments here do need to be addressed. Several things to consider:
1. No one writes my words for me. Anything I'm reading is either written preparation by me or is from a relevant document I am reading from.
2. The only political committee I am on is my own individual candidate committee.
3. Not conservative?? Check my credentials.
4. Racist member of a hate group??? That is preposterous as well as highly insulting.

This is going to be a very spirited primary and election campaign season that may even spill over to those of us not in races this year. Don't believe everything you hear. Check your sources and the motives of those involved. The truth matters.

Commented: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 8:40 am By: Charles Hickman

BC- For the love of God, don’t let MAGA lunatics destroy the public schools in the county.

Commented: Saturday, January 20th, 2024 @ 7:55 am By: Big Bob

Van Zant: Tonight, I relaxed a good bit with my wife on the sofa under the bigger blanket, which has become our custom of late when I was done; fell asleep through 1 and 3/4 episodes of the third season of "Northern Exposure;" putting in my standard 12 hour day of building just a tiny bit more of infrastructure, and in a fleeting thought, I considered just how useless RINOs are.

I really have had a belly full of these fake people, and how they weave their corrupt, corrosive webs to harm their enemies, while stealing from the Good People the truth of a rightful representation.

That the Beaufort County GOP lends succor to these dishonest fools is a travesty to the many good Republicans that built this local Republican party, and that I will never fully forgive.

These are trying times for honest, intelligent people; often the targets of these dishonest interlopers, these usurpers of the good works of others.

What is refreshing, as I learned from a new candidate in my office today, is that they, without any prompting from me, consider the RINO a most unnecessary class of Republican.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 11:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Conservatism is based on principles not who you personally like or don't like. One has to look at school policies and how board members vote on them. Curriculum is huge right now all over the country, as parents reject the public school establishment's woke curriculum. All three Republican candidates for governor have made fighting these woke curricula an issue, and all three are challenging the public school establishment. The nominal Republican school board members who are up for election this year are way out of step with the Republicans running for governor. Ditto all of the Republicans running for Lieutenant Governor who I have seen take a stand on education. They are also out of step with the leading Republican candidates for president.

On the other hand, the three conservatives elected to the school board last election are right in tune with our GOP candidates for these statewide and national offices.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 9:53 pm By: Conservative Voter

Van Zant: You will not have to concern yourself with NLR any longer, That fake person, but a real coward has been banished from ENC NOW for perpetuity.

I am truly considering making ENCNOW a coward-free-zone.

No one in Beaufort County celebrates and encourages Free Speech in Beaufort County more than myself; however, when Fake People, using Fake Emails bloviate in a manner not conducive with any manner of constructive behavior, the value of a coward's speech, as a fake person with a fake email, is limited, and then one wonders: If you limit a fake
person's non intelligent, and completely valueless Free Speech, what has been lost?
The answer can only be nothing ... nothing can be lost from nothing ... mathematically, it is like subtracting 0 from 0.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 8:27 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Not Ray Leary is also a fake person, with a fake alias because of their fake email.

If you are an alias, you will have to use a real email, and if you attack anyone's personal business, you will be limited on this platform in terms of access.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 7:28 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Rino Hunter, Wrong guess. Try again.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 6:14 pm By: Firebrand

That fund raising letter put the blame where it belongs, on the elected policy makers, the School Board, and on their top bureaucrat, the grossly overpaid Matthew Cheeseman, not on teachers. It is the establishment school board members who have tried to shuck the blame onto the teachers. While we are talking about teachers, Cheeseman is also a problem there, as we have had an exodus of teachers out of Beaufort County under the Cheeseman regime.

Commented: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 5:38 pm By: John Steed